Julianne Moore: As a longtime liberal, I found Sarah Palin “pretty terrifying”

posted at 3:05 pm on February 14, 2012 by Tina Korbe

Lovely. Just what you want to hear from the actress who plays Mrs. Palin in the soon-to-be-released HBO film, “Game Change.” Julianne Moore says she found her theatrical muse “terrifying.”

Actually, Moore’s quote about SP is neither as ideological nor as personal as the headline makes it sound. NewsBusters supplies the context:

Moore explained how she recognized Palin’s political appeal:

“Here’s a woman who’s a parent, who’s an actual working mother, who worked her way up from local government, who was definitely middle working class, married to a commercial fisherman….She was incredibly relatable, she was attractive, she was young; she was speaking to a wide portion of the population that didn’t feel that they’d been noticed or seen or heard.”

“I would say, as a registered Democrat and longtime liberal, I think that I speak for a lot of women when I say that when [Palin] burst onto the scene, the way that she did that was pretty terrifying because I really felt like, Oh my gosh, the Republicans might have this election,” Moore recalled of her first perceptions of Palin back in 2008. “She was so electrifying as a figure, it kind of blew everyone away.”

So, it wasn’t Palin per se that scared Ms. Moore; it was her freshness, the way in which she invigorated an admittedly dull and unattractive ticket.

Still, Moore’s remarks soften my expectations of her portrayal of Palin in the movie. Moore’s a pro, so it’ll be solid and as sympathetic as she can muster, but it won’t be transcendent. Before I read these comments and had just seen the trailer, my hopes were quite high: I dreamed some core of Julianne Moore might have connected with the character she was called upon to play. No such luck.

Eh, well. Look at it this way: Liberals have Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. We have actual Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin. Authenticity for the win. Clearly, prominent conservative women intrigue and attract Hollywood. What can we say? They’re magnetic.

D-cRAT socialists are as subtle as a union thug with a baseball bat -and just as smart. Consequently, the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists – and their stooges in the lamestream socialist fake-news media – ALWAYS make it perfectly clear who they fear as threats to their power and to leftist extremism and who they feel are minor annoyances that they can marginalize, co-opt, and defeat. Hence, their vicious, hysterical, out-of-control, foaming-at-the-mouth attacks on Palin, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Ryan, etc., and the kind words of bill “monica-stain” clinton and other leftists for huntsman, RINO romney(care), etc. And we should never forget their unbounded delight that a rino traitor like AMNESTY-JOHN mccain was nominated in 2008.

I don’t blame her. Sarah Palin would have made liberals go to church and keep their pregnancies and shoot wolves from helicopters. Plus she would have continued mocking Obama. All of these things are terrifying. Especially the mocking Obama part.

“Did Mitt Romney commit voter fraud when he cast a ballot for Scott Brown in last year’s special election in Massachusetts? On Monday, one of his lesser known opponents for the GOP presidential nomination, Fred Karger, filed a complaint with Massachusetts state election officials alleging that he voted for Brown, as well as in other Massachusetts elections, when he was not in fact a resident of the Bay State.”

Well, I can’t imagine that the Children of the Corn aka, the Tea Party, will take too kindly to this kind of talk. Ms. Moore should watch out, the clout that earned $100K for The Undefeated at the box office may turn their sights on her!

When a charismatic, electrifying figure of inspiration appears at the Democratic National Convention, firing up the crowd into a frenzy of enthusiasm, it’s hope and change.

When a charismatic, electrifying figure of inspiration appears at the Republican National Convention, firing up the crowd into a frenzy of enthusiasm, it’s a terrifying omen of the last days upon us, just before a crack in the ground opens and the minions of Beelzebub wreak destruction and horror.

Doomberg said:
“She scares a lot of the Republican Party to death too.”

Well ya, because Ms Palin isn’t some northeast elitist like Bush or Romney. Like Ron Paul, Palin doesn’t goose-step to the establishment GOP goons that have wrecked the conservative movement. She actually balanced a budget unlike that idiot Bush, Bush sr or Reagan.

I saw Meryl Streep on Huckabee promoting Iron Lady. Class act. And she won the British Academy Award on Sunday (BAFTA) and ran up on stage almost bringing her purse and losing a high heel shoe on the way, and her speech was very touching for Lady Thatcher.
You can watch it on BBC1 You Tube channel.

Of course she found Sarah Palin terrifying. Self made Independent conservative woman. Married to same guy for over 20 years, being together 30 years+, successful, authentic, strong and most important of all happy.

I can see why they were scared. Until Sarah came along they had no idea there was any woman out there that actually BELIEVED that stuff. Respects her husband, pro-life even in the case of out of wedlock pregnancies and extra chromosome children, has an intact family with extra kids, religious, I mean, who DOES that?

Of course they still don’t get it. Hence the attack on people of relgious conviction in regards to contraception and abortion. No one believes that stuff anymore. Well yeah, Sarah Palin and a few old white dudes. But no one else does. Right? Right?

So this actress just confirmed what millions of us have seen
with our own eyes over the last 3 years….how else to
explain the blood vessel popping, schizophrenic, reaction
by the Left in this country?? She TERRIFIES them!

Well, I can’t imagine that the Children of the Corn aka, the Tea Party, will take too kindly to this kind of talk. Ms. Moore should watch out, the clout that earned $100K for The Undefeated at the box office may turn their sights on her!

KeninCT on February 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM

You can joke about it if you want, but Moore ain’t exactly lighting up the box office with her filmography. Unless she’s piggy-backing on some guaranteed blockbuster(The Fugitive, The Lost Turd: Jurassic Park, Hannibal), her movies tend to do mediocre business at best. She’s a terrific actress most of the time, but alienating half the country does her career no good.

HELLO JULIANNE – NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU THINK!! Breaking News. Actually all the “crafters” in Hollyweird should just focus on the play acting, dancing and singing. Attempting to think, rationalize or ponder is WAY OUT OF YOUR REACH!

There’s not much too these comments – she claims to have been terrified of Palin helping McCain beat Obama, but still:

“I would say, as a registered Democrat and longtime liberal, I think that I speak for a lot of women

You were already speaking for Democrats and liberals. Why do self-preening feminists have this incessant need to co-opt an entire gender, nearly half of which disagrees with them? It’s been more than 40 years since the 1960s ended. I think if delegitimizing 40-45% of women was going to work, it would have by now.

This mentality is related to the “colonialism” bit in the news post about the Falklands that just went up. Having a recent LA degree myself, I can attest that academia has devolved into a slave heirarchy, where the most pathetic are ipso facto the most noble and empirically righteous. There is no higher honor nor more relevant facet of one’s culture than a claim to have been oppressed by someone.

Well, I can’t imagine that the Children of the Corn aka, the Tea Party, will take too kindly to this kind of talk. Ms. Moore should watch out, the clout that earned $100K for The Undefeated at the box office may turn their sights on her!

KeninCT on February 14, 2012 at 3:12 PM

I can hardly wait for the Obama biopic to shatter all box office records. I wonder who they will cast to play Frank Marshall Davis. I would like to suggest Nathan Lane for the Larry Sinclair role.

You were already speaking for Democrats and liberals. Why do self-preening feminists have this incessant need to co-opt an entire gender, nearly half of which disagrees with them? It’s been more than 40 years since the 1960s ended. I think if delegitimizing 40-45% of women was going to work, it would have by now.

This mentality is related to the “colonialism” bit in the news post about the Falklands that just went up. Having a recent LA degree myself, I can attest that academia has devolved into a slave heirarchy, where the most pathetic are ipso facto the most noble and empirically righteous. There is no higher honor nor more relevant facet of one’s culture than a claim to have been oppressed by someone.

Well, I can’t imagine that the Children of the Corn aka, the Tea Party, will take too kindly to this kind of talk. Ms. Moore should watch out, the clout that earned $100K for The Undefeated at the box office may turn their sights on her!

I can see why they were scared. Until Sarah came along they had no idea there was any woman out there that actually BELIEVED that stuff. Respects her husband, pro-life even in the case of out of wedlock pregnancies and extra chromosome children, has an intact family with extra kids, religious, I mean, who DOES that?

Of course they still don’t get it. Hence the attack on people of relgious conviction in regards to contraception and abortion. No one believes that stuff anymore. Well yeah, Sarah Palin and a few old white dudes. But no one else does. Right? Right?

Lily on February 14, 2012 at 3:15 PM

Excellent. Might I add that it was all over for her when they saw her drag out Trig. It laid waste to all the propaganda that women could have it all provided they follow the feminist doctrine.

And out trots Palin, who quite literally does have it all along with no abortions. It was a raw awakening and a very hard slap in the face to a lot of women who probably realized, though will not admit, that they’ve been lied to all these years.

All the liberals I know sit and shake in their boots over the scary, scary Republicans who should be defeated at all and every cost, much as you would try to defeat an alien population that is threatening to eat everyone alive.

They act as if anyone conservative is literally a bogeyman equatable to, oh, say, any mass murderer in history.

They were so, so terrified by all those “really scary” tea partiers! You know, all those violent, dangerous, violent, troglodyte, violent racists! To my face they said this, knowing I went to tea parties. (As well as looked at me as if I’d suddenly contracted leprosy.)

Yet along come the OWS, and those are wonderful people always doing the right thing! To be admired! Wow, we need more of those!

Didn’t matter WHAT the OWS people did. Horrible thing after horrible thing – throwing bottles at police, raping each other, relieving themselves in public, burning flags, breaking windows, taking over public land, you name it – yet somehow the liberals I know they they are still the good guys. Whereas us tea partiers – who never did anything (except thank the police, sing the National Anthem, and clean up after ourselves) – are STILL the “scary” ones.

Right. I’m sick of these idiot liberals acting all lily-livered and terrified of anyoneconservative – in the hope, of course, that all this faux fear will catch on.

Julianne Moore softened hers a little bit. But not much, and still using the word “terrifying.”

Eh, well. Look at it this way: Liberals have Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. We have actual Margaret Thatcher and Sarah Palin. Authenticity for the win. Clearly, prominent conservative women intrigue and attract Hollywood. What can we say? They’re magnetic.